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According to TIME magazine, Bukele is (arguably) the most popular leader in the world. And I think the citizens of El Salvador are pleased with the murder rate dropping from over 100/100K in 2015 to 2.4/100K in 2024. That's better than 47 of the 50 US states. Ya gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.

Gotta love this response from the President of El Salvador: Bukele posted, “Oopsie…Too late ” over a New York Post headline that reads, “Fed judge orders deportation flights carrying alleged Venezuelan gangbangers to return to US after Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act” Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable). The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us. Win-Win.

I must be jaded. My first thought was "that's a luxury condo?"

Thomas Sowell said it best. There are no solutions. Only compromises. If Making America Great Again means a few less tourists, that's a good tradeoff.

I posted this in another thread, but I think it bears repeating here, to put Jan6 into context: I read an interesting website looking for some stats about the Summer of Love... 8700 protests during the period, with 3,692 involving illegal acts. 574 involved violence. 100 in one city alone. 2,835 incidents of looting, 624 incidents of arson, including 97 cop cars burned. 2035 LEOs injured. 16,241 arrests, but most of them quickly released. And they keep pointing at Jan6 which lasted, what, maybe a couple of hours? And so appalled even the righties that it never happened again. Versus 8700 times... MCCA-Report-on-the-2020-Protest-and-Civil-Unrest.pdf After-Action Reports on the Riots of 2020 | Police Magazine For those who refuse to do their own Googling, that's the Major Cities Chiefs Association, of police chiefs. (And I do apologize that I can't seem to get live links to work.)

No. Unless the lefties unleash another summer of love and mostly peaceful city burnings. But the MSM will spin some of his executive actions as some version of martial law. I read an interesting website looking for some stats about the Summer of Love... 8700 protests during the period, with 3,692 involving illegal acts. 574 involved violence. 100 in one city alone. 2,835 incidents of looting, 624 incidents of arson, including 97 cop cars burned. 2035 LEOs injured. 16,241 arrests, but most of them quickly released. And they keep pointing at Jan6 which lasted, what, maybe a couple of hours? And so appalled even the righties that it never happened again. Versus 8700 times... MCCA-Report-on-the-2020-Protest-and-Civil-Unrest.pdf After-Action Reports on the Riots of 2020 | Police Magazine For those who refuse to do their own Googling, that's the Major Cities Chiefs Association, of police chiefs. (And I do apologize that I can't seem to get live links to work.) If the lefties go on another howling, I hope martial law follows.

If anyone sees Ana Kasparian wandering around, let me know.

My heart sinks whenever I see a Thai beggar with a tiny kid that's being dragged along as a prop.

He was going for the George Michael look, during his Wham days. https://coolmenshair.com/wp-content/uploads/georgemichaelmediumlengthhairstyle.jpg

That's promising.

Get a mirror and keep telling yourself:

You may want to consider the possibility that companies who sell cement cocks also sell cement tables. They're all over Thailand. No use telling you about one in Chiang Mai if you live in Hua Hin. Shipping charges alone would be more than the cost of getting one locally. Another guy asking for advice, then insulting the people who could give it to him.

All I hear is "Boo hoo". Lefty tears.

The reason he'll stay a 34x convicted felon is because the judge didn't give him a custodial sentence so any appeal would be all risk with no upside. He'd win on appeal, but why risk it?

If you had a choice between 3 months (if that) for pleading guilty or up to 20 years if we have to go to court, which would you choose?

You may want to mention where you're staying. I've seen a ton of roadside shops that sell this kind of cement furniture. As I recall, they usually have a bunch of gaudy painted rooster statues in various sizes up front. Up to 10' tall and taller... But that may be me conflating eclectic roadside shops in Thailand.

If you've been following these cases (not just this one), the gist is that they offer short sentences for the ones that plead guilty and even shorter sentences to those who roll over and say bad things about the others. That's all a guilty plea means. It's pretty common (albeit sad) for innocent people to plead guilty to avoid the risk of a long sentence. Especially in a political prosecution.

The difference is that I'm knobby on my own dime. The knobs in the MSM and gub'ment and NGOs are getting paid to advance their propaganda.

Start here on AP. Go down the rabbit hole as far as you want... (Sorry I still can't get links to work, but I'm sure this will be enough to Google it) Entrapment in play as appeals court looks at plot to kidnap Michigan governor | AP News It may be a while before Kash Patel gets around to investigating this case. His plate is rather full. So is Bondi's. Here's a snippet... “They were talking about doing this before they ever met the informants,” he said. “Adam Fox said we need to take our tyrants as hostages two weeks before he had ever met a government informant. Barry Croft had been talking about it much longer.” They were talking about it before they met the informants. But they never did anything about it until the FBI stepped in and helped.

That's kinda the theme of the thread. It's in the title.

Wasn't that the FBI operation that took a group of misfits that couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery and walked them through the entire plot, holding their hands and providing support all along the way?

A) Until someone shows me an actual accounting, I have no clue whether they've saved any money. Neither do the knobs reporting that they do know. We won't know for at least a few quarters. B) Show me a politician that doesn't put a favorable spin on their programs and forecast rainbows and lollypops. C) (And this is the most important one). How does that justify vandalism and burning stuff down and swatting and other acts of violence?

My post was poorly worded in a hurry out the door and I apologize for that. But the point still stands, if only based on dozens of posts just here on AN lamented that Crooks wasn't a better shot. Meanwhile, conservative influencers are being swatted (risking not only their lives, but the LEOs being sent), property is being vandalized, companies are being targeted (that have thousands of employees and even more stockholders). Because some people don't like Bad Orange Man or (by association) Musk. I guaranty you that there are millions of lefties that will be hoping that Space-X fails, that Trump keels over, and that the economy collapses on his watch. Like they were hoping out loud that the next would be assassin wouldn't fail. All because they can't stand the possibility that they'll succeed. That's the state of many on the left in America today. They resort to violence, vandalism and thuggery if they don't get their way. Personally, I'd prefer and end to gub'ment waste and corruption, a balanced budget and prosperity for more Americans.

And I'll bet you'll be one of the millions of lefties crossing your fingers and hoping they crash when Space-X launches their mission to rescue the astronauts stranded up there by the previous administration. Just to get back at Musk.

Kinda like little kids can be amused for hours playing peek-a-boo.